Sex, ties and bias: a new study says women business owners are adept at playing the Old Boys network

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A Small Business Foundation of America study of entrepreneurs in North Carolina discovered that female business-owners are just as competitive and willing to ask for advice as male business-owners. This contradicts conventional wisdom that female entrepreneurs are less assertive than men.

Surveys, Businesswomen, Women-owned business enterprises, Women-owned businesses

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Life in 'the zero era.' (period of no inflation)(Column)

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Economist Roger Bootle claims in his book, 'The Death of Inflation,' that Western nations are entering an economic age characterized by price stability rather than inflation. Zero inflation may speed and prolong economic growth.

Forecasts and trends, Economic development, Inflation (Finance), Wages, Wages and salaries, Economists, Inflation (Economics), Boodle, Roger

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Mass-market mobility

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Personal communications services are about to challenge cellular telephone companies in the wireless communication market in Canada. Marketing wars could reduce rates by 10% to 40% compared to current cellular charges.

Canada, Cellular telephone services industry, Marketing, Cellular telephone services, Telecommunications systems, Personal communications services, TELUS Mobility, Microcell Telecommunications Inc.

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